Star-Telegram - Much of it was once considered too old, too remote and too dry to be a central player on the American stage, but now the 10-state Great Plains region is in the midst of a historic recovery, according to a report released today by Texas Tech University.

The Globe and Mail- Canada - The study examined a broad universe of funds. “We didn’t say that there might not be some manager who could consistently add value,” says Mr. Evensky, a 35-year industry veteran who also teaches a graduate investment class at Texas Tech University. “But it certainly suggests they would be awfully hard to find, and you probably wouldn’t know it for a decade [of performance].”

Insurance Journal -“There’s been a dramatic rise in the number of people looking at this,” says Ernst Kiesling, a professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech University and executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association. Many of the association’s 35 member firms have seen at least a 40 percent increase in business since the tornadoes that ravaged the Midwest in 2011. “They had a backlog of several months,” Kiesling says.